Posted on 10/10/2017 7:48:48 AM PDT by pabianice
I am not sure which show you watched.
There were plenty of front line vets interviewed. There service and heroism was clear and was presented in an honorable way.
Of interest.
Interesting I watched the entire series and I remember learning that Lê Duẩn rounded up school teachers political adversaries and citizens who protested and imprisoned or shot them.
I also learned how the Viet Cong and the NVA would capture and then torture and dismember our troops and the RVN troops and they would do the same to anyone in the villages and cities who aided American forces when they captured a town or city.
I agree. They made it exceptionally clear that there was a lot of support on the campuses until they started drafting white kids from the suburbs.
I did not realize the lopsided casualty rates among the black troops in the early days of the war. After watching that those two things, it was clear that the majority of the early protestors were pussy kids trying to avoid the draft.
I always felt that way—and i was a kid when this was happening.
And in 500 years there will only be the written words of academics and old men.
Vietnam is not different from any other war.
Most warriors do their job. Then they come home.
A few years? It has been 42 years since we surrendered. They have spent that time savaging their own country and doing basically nothing else. Nice beaches, though. I was home about two months when we pulled out of Vietnam and let the communist savages roll in and brutalize the country.
My father (Airborne Ranger) said some fleabag got in his face at LAX when he returned from his second tour in `72, a couple months early because his mother was dying.
He said the hippie got too close and started to spit, but hippie wound doing an impression of a floor mop.
Yeah, maybe it didn’t happen to you but it happened.
Ken Burns is a faggot lefty douchebag.
When I was growing up in the 70’s we had this guy in his late 20’s early 30’s who drove a delivery truck to my parents business a couple times a week to drop off supplies. He always wore a beard even in the heat of summer.
He was always quite and soft spoken and did a good job. One day they asked him why the beard even in the summer time heat and he got kind of quite and then said he was in Vietnam and wounded and as he was being carried off the plane in Seattle or San Fransisco there was an anti-war protest going on and the protestors threw a glass bottle and hit him in the face cutting it open and he had to have his whole face sewn up. He wore it to hide the scars. I have hated the war protestors since that day with a passion, he was a hell of a nice, humble and decent man.
Their stories, while compelling in their own way are not the story of the Vietnam war. They are the stories of sad women in America.
Maybe a separate documentary, but there only needed to be enough hone front stuff to illustrate the war itself. THAT is what the series was about.
Yup, I knew you were only going to get the bs.
Mr. Jengis khan himself. Scumbag should be lined up against the Vietnam wall and shot.
Whatta guy.
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